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Oasis007:


......worry not. LOL!

Unless someone else pays higher for him I’m nonplussed. That guy is just unserious and disappointing. Can you imagine. They should terminate his contract sef. No space for unseriousness

CapitalCee:
My bad i read it wrongly. Apologies

No wahala chief.

My point was that we were starting to go after players who are at or near their peak in the last couple of years. And I think it’s going to be a good thing for us.

We need quality competition for positions in the squad. These type of new additions will bring that.

CapitalCee:
If Bruno Stays. Added with a fully fit Amad. We may be looking at 100goals from just the 5 of them. But with Onana in post, we may be shipping in stupid goals, thereby sabotaging the work of the front line.

I am predicting a 10 goals EPL season for Zirkzee.

If Zirkzee scores 10, Amad scores 6, Bruno another double figure in goals and assists and Mbeumo and Cunha add to fit own tally, we should be in a much better position league wise. And that’s the minimum.

CapitalCee:
I agree with you in all you said. But they are not at the Twilight of their careers.

Did I say they were at the twilight of their careers?

FVVVCCCK SANCHO MEHN 😡😡😡

spillo1:
Two players we all ignoring is Zirkzee and Maino. I feel both players would perform better this coming season. Zirkzee was picking up form before his unfortunate injury and he would link up well with both Cunha and Mbuemo.

Same with Mateta.

spillo1:
Delap would have been a fantastic addition. Apart from age he's not similar to Holjund in any way and besides Holjund scored 10 league goals and another 5 in the champions league in his first season. With a competent competition like delap he might pick up form again but that's by the way. Our back up to Delap is Mateta, Osimhen and Gyokeres have been ruled out. What do you think about Mateta?

Mateta is not bad. He’s the kind of CF you want when you have fast wingers or AMs beside him. He can hold up the ball and can finish chances. He can definitely play a role and might be a really good addition.

He offers a completely different profile to the likes of Gyokeres, Delap and Hojlund as he lacks pace. But he’s a good player.

delkuf:
yeah our recruitment has really improved since ineos took over.

I want us to really enforce more on midfield especially the defensive midfield. That is where we are seriously lacking. We conceded lots of goals this past season so it shouldn't happen again

Last season we were 10th in terms of goals conceded. Not good but not that bad either. In terms of goal scored, we placed 16th with 44 goals.

Our problem is goals. We don’t score enough of them. We need more attackers and more players who can finish chances and outperform their xG

Jamiuokolaa:
The bigger issues here is that Amorim would most likely shoehorn him into his style/formation - his captain must always start.

Bruno's best position is that free role infront of 2 CMs behind the #9 in a 4-2-3-1 formation but since that 3-4-2-1 has come to stay, it would be interesting to see how the manager addresses this problem that has been lingering for since he joined the club

Football formations are not always rigid, yuno.

In the PSG-Inter UCL final, for one of the goals Vitinho started from RB, went into CB, carried the ball through the midfield and received a back heel from Dembele in the AM position to set up Doue for a perfect finish.

If Bruno plays as one of the AMs, he can be a third midfielder for better defensive solidity. He can also be the focal point of attack when we’re on the offensive.

If he’s part of the midfield 2, he can start attacks and be the much needed balance in midfield.

I personally think we’d get more out of Bruno if we limit his roaming activity tho. I also don’t like how he almost always telling players how and who to pass the ball to, especially when they don’t look confused or flustered.

Jamiuokolaa:
"Man utd not spending enough" is the crux of the matter here...

Spending wisely and efficiently is another argument entirely with so many things to look at.

Let's even disagree to agree about netspend (the assumption is that FFP and Business Continuity dont matter), below is the gross spend on players by PL clubs in the last 3 years...

Let’s not drag this argument unnecessarily.

My main point is that if we’re going to catch up with City, Liverpool and the likes, we have to match and probably do better than them in terms of spending and spending wisely.

Do you disagree with that?

spillo1:
I told you guys INEOS are not playing around. If Delap had chosen us we would had a front three by now.

Unless we sell Hojuju, I don’t really think Delap would be a good addition. For me, there isn’t much difference between the two of them.

Even if we have one or both of them we’ll still need a good striker who is not inexperienced and can score goals without needing his teammates to work for him.

We’re building a squad, not a starting XI. By the time season starts and injuries start cropping up, we’ll understand how important this is.

Jamiuokolaa:
Lol

Knew he wasn’t going to leave… We better raise serious funds from selling Rashford, Antony and the likes.

delkuf:
God please let be able to sign mbuemo. Man u get this guy

Mbeumo plus Cunha is a step in the right direction. They’re not at the twilight of their career and still have something to offer. We just need a few additions in other positions, especially in the striking department. With or without Amorim, that would be a good squad.

Like I’ve said multiple times before, our recruitment is improving. We just need to build on it with more quality players and sensible transfers.

INEOS still on serious watch though.

Jamiuokolaa:
I think you are muddling up two entirely different arguments here...

Is it that man utd don't spend enough or man utd dont spend wisely - which is which?

Which argument are you on about?

Jamiuokolaa:
I think you are muddling two different things up here

Is it that man utd don't spend enough or man utd dont spend wisely - which is which?

You think it can’t be both?

There’s no muddling anywhere.

Irrespective of who the coach is or whatnot, we should continue investing intelligently in the squad this summer.

Last season we brought in about 5 defenders who could play for the first team or at least do a shift for some period (DeLigt, Mazraoui, Yoro, Dorgu, and Heaven?).

This season , we need at least 1 midfielder who can start and 2-3 attackers who can start, depending on outgoing. We are too thin in attack.

Jamiuokolaa:
Smh

I give up

Lol. Didn’t expect any less from you.

Net spend depends on sales plus purchases. Since United hardly sell their players for anything tangible and often overpay for their targets, their net spend will definitely be on the high side. It doesn’t mean they’ve been wiser in the transfer market.

When we won the treble in 99, we had 4 really good strikers even though only 2 can play - Yorke, Cole, Ole and one other guy.

When we won the double in 2008, we had that fearless attack with enough cover for most positions.

Today, we’ve got an inexperienced attack, with youth players being thrusted to deliver every week. But since our net spend is on par with City ‘in the last five years’, let’s fold hands and wait for the stressed monkey to defecate akara and honey.

Jamiuokolaa:
But in terms of netspend, we have been ahead of them in the last 5 years thereabout..

The other 13 teams that finished above us, how much have they been spending?

Wetin concern purchases with net spend?

Do you know how many players Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa brought in in the last 2 seasons? I’m not talking about 80m splashes on unproven buys from Ajax o.

City realized how poor they were last season and they’ve quickly replaced worn out legs. Keep expecting your manager to perform magic with the exquisite shiiiiite Richard Arnold purchased 3-5 years ago.

Jamiuokolaa:
Mbuemo's purchase would take spendings to about 140m within the last 6 months thereabout...

Do you know how much City spent in January? They just won the league a year ago o

Lana1:
Bros want to compete with City but they dont want to spend even a quarter as much money as City. "ALL we need is a good coach"

And 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1. Once we change formation everything will fall in place.

Look at City splashing again after they splashed last January. Dem get 2 heads?

Can’t believe we paid 116 million for Cunha 😡

CrystalTiger:
Winning by this margin and still chasing everything down 😟😟, it can never be these lazy brats we parade as players..

Kudos to Enrique..

That Kvara goal… if na Garnacho, e go miss am

Ibime:
Mbappe PSG career was wasted by Neymar and Messi

They never had this complete midfield until they signed João Nerves this summer

Mbappe never enjoyed such a supporting cast

Sometimes football is timing.

They probably wouldn’t win the UCL with Mbappe in the team. He’s their Coutinho, only that they didn’t need the funds from his sale.

What a disgrace

Weyrey wan do smash and grab. E chop 4-0 😀

See as that guy dey cry lol

AirBere:
I warned ooo. I said they were weak after defeating a very weak Bayern team.

One more goal pls. I need 5:0

Ahan. Fear God naw. 4-0 is enough

4- kondo

Inter f up big time. What a shameless display.

Tiri kondo

Inter might not even score one goal

afrodoc2:
And nobody is saying Delap is this generational world class talent, but to now pretend we were not after him is quite disingenuous.

Meanwhile see as PSG pieces that Inter bus parking defense. You park bus and you still concede empty net tap in.

DiMarco pulled a Wan Bissaka